OSWEGO, NY, November 26, 2008 - The Seaway Trail Corporation has elected its 2008-2010 board of directors to guide the membership-based not-for-profit organization that develops and promotes tourism and related economic development opportunities throughout the 518-mile freshwater shoreline region of New York and Pennsylvania.

The Seaway Trail is federally designated as one of America’s Byways and a National Recreation Trail. The byway region includes St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Oswego, Cayuga, Wayne, Monroe, Orleans, Niagara, Erie and Chautauqua counties in NY and Erie County, PA.

David G. White coordinates the Great Lakes Activities of New York Sea Grant and is serving as the Seaway Trail Revitalizing the Brand project coordinator. He also helped coordinate the 2007 Seaway Trail Shipwrecks Exhibit and Speakers Series that brought national attention to the byway and its hundreds of historic shipwrecks via an Associated Press article and earned Seaway Trail, Inc. an Upstate History Alliance Certificate of Commendation. Mr. White, a recreation/tourism specialist with New York Sea Grant, holds a Seaway Trail, Inc. officer’s position as Secretary.